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- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George “We made a legacy gift so that our contributions will continue after our deaths,” says William W. “Bill” George (MBA 1966) of the planned gift he and his wife, Penny, established to invest in students’... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
Clubs News Clubs News Club Webinars Explore Untapped Potential of FemTech The HBS Women’s Association of Greater New York (HBSWANY), and the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSANC) each hosted a virtual panel discussion last month exploring the overlooked View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
accepted into previously. It was a welcome turn of events that enabled her to achieve the dream she and Gupta had of growing Rocket Learning into a thriving enterprise that would catalyze early childhood development across their native country. Read more about... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
need to purchase the equipment necessary to provide treatment. Letelier wanted to offer loans—which would not require the same outcomes that many grant-makers look for—to help such an organization expand, reaching more people and recouping the View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
experience was exactly what she needed. “I was drinking from the fire hose,” she says. “At MIT, I learned how to problem solve. At HBS, I got a framework that allowed me to see the bigger picture.” The School also facilitated her career transition—from technology to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable public safety... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Celebrating HBS
Noting that HBS is educating students now for a vastly more globalized and challenging world economy, Dean Clark traced the School’s mission to its beginnings, when creating an educational community dedicated to skilled and thoughtful... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
Importantly, determining a country’s standing on these criteria is judged not by the MCC but by outside parties such as the WHO and the Heritage Foundation. Once selected, partner countries must submit proposals indicating specifics about how they intend to View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
The final in a series of profiles of the twelve new members of the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since 1994, New York native Thomas G. Mendell (MBA '74) has been a partner in the principal investments area at The Beacon Group, LLC, in New... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
increasing shareholder value. When the alumni invest in our faculty — by funding professorships or supporting the activities of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, for example — they are supporting present needs while also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
Paul and Susan Tierney in Ghana. With a mission to create economic value in Latin America and Africa by supporting local entrepreneurs, TechnoServe uses its $15 million budget and four hundred employees to provide business resources to... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
influence.” That small act led to an epiphany for Traill, who set out on a mission to create venture philanthropy that could back social entrepreneurs with strategy and guidance to support young people. A year later, he founded Social... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
had been suspended for several years. One of the first women to graduate from HBS, Franklin is used to breaking down barriers. She has worked with five Presidents of the United States, founded an international trade consulting and View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
juggernaut.” While much has changed for Goldman and other investment firms in the last year, its rise to prominence — driven by extraordinary individuals — is a matter of record. The following excerpts from The Partnership look at two of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
pitch. For Adidas CEO Robert Louis-Dreyfus, a Frenchman and a soccer fan extraordinaire, the outcome of the Cup competition could not have been sweeter. With his company having invested $100 million in Cup-related marketing and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in the agency to View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
her classmates, Langer began her employment in the financial industry, joining Shearson Lehman Brothers as an investment banker. "I was specializing with retail companies: Federated Department Stores, Macy's, Barneys New York. It was just... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
This month marks the first anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq. Within weeks of their initial military assault, U.S. and coalition troops triumphed over the Iraqi army and took on a new mission — rebuilding a country... View Details